About the Authors

Jianqin Ye

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrew Boyle

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Henry Shih

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Richard E. Sievers

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Megha Prasad

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hua Su

Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

William Grossman

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Harold S. Bernstein

Affiliations Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Yerem Yeghiazarians

yeghiaza@medicine.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY AB WG HSB YY. Performed the experiments: Jy H. Shih RES Y. Zhang Y. Zhou. Analyzed the data: JY AB HSB YY. Wrote the paper: JY AB HSB YY.